[kmlx]

> Russia has been an extremely inefficient and corrupt state for the past 2 decades.

not 2 decades. it’s been a corrupt inefficient machine since the bolsheviks. the lying and the corruption persisted throughout the ussr. the whole country and it’s precursor are just lies built one on top of the other and the westerners actually believed most of it.

[wrp]

Longer than that. Europeans have remarked on the corruption and inefficiency of the Russian state throughout history.